3 Ways to Use Chickweed
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Chickweed has an incredible amount of uses in the garden, kitchen, and as a medicinal herb. Learn how Rosalee de la Foret uses chickweed in today’s show.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by Rosalie |
| 0:19.4 | de la Fore. She is an herbalist. She's the author of Wild Remedies. |
| 0:23.0 | That's coming out April 7th. |
| 0:25.0 | And she's also the author of Alchemy of Herbs. |
| 0:27.0 | It's about how to use herbs in your everyday life. |
| 0:30.0 | And speaking of, we've talked about dandelions already on the show we've talked |
| 0:34.0 | about nettles and today we're talking about one that I know quite a bit less |
| 0:37.7 | about than I did about those prior to and that would be chickweed so I'm kind of |
| 0:42.3 | going to let you drive the show on this one. |
| 0:44.4 | What should we know about chickweed? |
| 0:47.0 | Yes, lovely little chickweed. |
| 0:49.1 | Well, it's botanical name is Stolaria Media, |
| 0:52.2 | and it does have some look-alikes out there so you want to be sure |
| 0:55.1 | that you really are looking at chickweed when you're out and about and I love this |
| 1:00.4 | little starry plant it's one of my very favorite wild edibles and it loves to grow in gardens and sometimes is planted even intentionally as a cover crop, but it can be difficult to get rid of once it's around. So I just kind of enjoy it where it's already at. |
| 1:16.6 | And it grows pretty close to the ground and kind of a dense mat. |
| 1:20.8 | It's really easy to harvest. |
| 1:22.1 | It has these stems and leaves, so it's kind of this fleshy |
| 1:27.0 | plants and these little tiny flowers and you can just go through with scissors and snip them off and the taste of them is so bright and |
| 1:36.2 | delicious. |
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